Software QA & Testing — Assignments 7 & 8 (AITU)

Overview

Assignments 7 and 8 for the Software Quality Assurance and Testing course at Astana IT University. Implements Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using the behave framework with Gherkin feature files. Tests automate a hotel search flow on booking.com — destination entry, date selection, and results verification.

What it covers

• BDD with Behave — .feature files written in Gherkin (Given/When/Then)
• Tag-based test filtering — @smoke and @regression scenario tags
• Scenario parametrization — destination city passed as a step argument ("Astana", "Almaty")
• Step definitions — @given, @when, @then decorators mapping Gherkin steps to Selenium actions
• Environment hooks — after_scenario teardown in environment.py to quit the browser
• Overlay and cookie handling — best-effort dismissal of cookie banners and intercept overlays on real-world sites
• Screenshot capture at each test step as visual evidence
• Date calculation for dynamic check-in/check-out offsets

Project structure

assignment7_8_sqat/
├── features/
│   ├── booking_search.feature    # Smoke + regression hotel-search scenarios
│   ├── booking_dates.feature     # Date selection scenarios
│   ├── environment.py            # Behave hooks (after_scenario driver teardown)
│   └── steps/
│       └── booking_steps.py      # Step definitions (Selenium + helper functions)
├── 01_home.png                   # Step screenshots (committed as run evidence)
├── 02_destination.png
├── 03_dates.png
├── 04_after_search.png
└── 05_results.png

Getting started

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install behave selenium

Run all scenarios:

behave

Run only smoke tests:

behave --tags=smoke

Run only regression tests:

behave --tags=regression

Requires Chrome and ChromeDriver available on PATH.

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Adil Ormanov — GitHub